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Maamar V'avarti 5719 #3: True Self Love Is Divine Love; But Then I Realize that Too Is Limiting Me

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Rabbi YY Jacobson

Maamar V'avarti 5719 #3: True Self Love Is Divine Love; But Then I Realize that Too Is Limiting Me

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Okay, good morning everybody. Welcome. Thank you for gracing us. So, we're middle of the class number three. We're up to class number three. Today's class is dedicated by our dear friend Rab Isaac Isaac Neworth in loving memory and leu nishmas leasimal who passed away on the 13th day of Nissen. This is going to be the third yard site, second yard site. And may your soul be always a source of blessing and inspiration for the whole especially for all of the children with all the blessings. Thank you. I'm also dedicated for a complete and speedy recovery for Ben Sifka. May he have all the blessings and a complete and speedy recovery. Amen. Okay. So, we're in the mime of the Reb said 1959 and we're holding chapter 4 which in the copies is page chapter 4 which in the copies is page 199. page 199. I got an extremely um moving email yesterday. I don't know the person personally, but it was a young man, 27 years old, who wrote an email. He's following the mimer. He's learning with us the mimer online. And uh See if it opens. So I usually give a summation and uh before we begin we go further. So uh the summation will be in the form of an email of this young man. It was very moving to read. He says as it starts off as evil. Hi Rabbi Jacobson. I was extremely closed off my

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  2. 6:15experience which is embodied but it's sometimes so disconnected that it doesn't say it's disconnected because…
  3. 12:27and um rooted in deep deep understanding meditation transcendental awareness. It shouldn't just be instinctive and…
  4. 18:39You do have what do we mean by that? There's a an arousal of actual midas…
  5. 24:53could I could delude myself. I could do a lot of things to dist I could…
  6. 31:04something special about it. Those are all very important, but those are all manifestations here. It's…
  7. 37:14Yeah. It's a non-starter. The guy fine. Why? Why? I don't understand. So you say, "What's…
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  10. 55:51represents complete revelation so relative to the of yim this is called a darkness relative of…

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